7 – 8 of the entries are posted within the time period assigned.
5 - 6 of the entries are posted within the time period assigned.
3 - 4 of the entries are posted within the time period assigned.
1 - 2of the entries are posted within the time period assigned.
None of the entries are posted within the time period assigned.
Completion
3/5
All entries are completed in fluent, cohesive, grade appropriate manner.
More than half of the entries are completed in fluent, cohesive, grade appropriate manner.
Some of the entries are completed in fluent, cohesive, grade appropriate manner.
Less than half of the entries are completed in fluent, cohesive, grade appropriate manner.
None of the entries are completed in fluent, cohesive, grade appropriate manner.
Explanation of Evidence
4/5
All of the entries are written in a manner that thoroughly explains the event that took place.
More than half of the entries are written in a manner that thoroughly explains the event that took place.
Some of the entries are written in a manner that thoroughly explains the event that took place.
Less than half of the entries are written in a manner that thoroughly explains the event that took place.
None of the entries are written in a manner that thoroughly explains the event that took place.
Authenticity of Evidence
4/5
All of the entries give evidence of an event that truly exhibits an authentic English experience.
More than half of the entries give evidence of an event that truly exhibits an authentic English experience.
Some of the entries give evidence of an event that truly exhibits an authentic English experience.
Less than half of the entries give evidence of an event that truly exhibits an authentic English experience.
None of the entries give evidence of an event that truly exhibits an authentic English experience.
Style, voice, creativity
5/5
All of the entries are written and displayed with creativity, originality, and a sense of the author’s personality.
More than half of the entries are written and displayed with creativity, originality, and a sense of the author’s personality.
Some of the entries are written and displayed with creativity, originality, and a sense of the author’s personality.
Less than half of the entries are written and displayed with creativity, originality, and a sense of the author’s personality.
None of the entries are written and displayed with creativity, originality, and a sense of the author’s personality.
TOTAL:
19/25
SUMMER
1 WEEK
helping out the village
my diploma;;)
Going to the village at 6 am:(
Honduras Outreach Mission in Olancho:
This was the first week of summer finally NO SCHOOL! After getting out of school my mom send me and my sister to this entersting mission with this group of americans that come every year to help poor people that live in villages. Each year they choose diffrent departments this year the deparment that they went was Olancho. When i got to olancho i was like are you kidding me because we were in the middle of nowhere but then after being one week there i got establishes and it wasd kind of a fun expiernce. We got up at 6 in the moning and hopped on a bus and went to the village witch was 2 hours away from were we where staying soo we got there pretty tired so then like at 8 we got to the village the girls gaved lessons to the kids of the village so this group camed from a church so they were really religious so they showed the kids things of god and we made arts and crafts all together were we worked with them was in theirs school it was kind of an elementry it was only from kinder to sixth grade so we worked with little kids the school was in really bad shaped but that sisnt matter when we were thewre cause our mission was to make people happy. The boys they worked in houses they made the cement and then they made floors and rooftops cause the hpuse were in really bad shape in that little village it was kind of scary how those people lived i got to help one day on building it was kind of hard because i neede to carry big buckets of cement and throw it to the floor it was a fun expiernce. After all the effort we put in the day we left like at 4 and hopped on the bus again they 2 hours and finally got were we were staying. At night we had devotions whicg we sat in a circle and sang some songs whitch we pretty gppd it was a moment of sharing and apprectiating all what we had done in the day it was a relaxing moment. I made new friends it was really cool we all shared our life and they we were nice people. I also translated to the little kid because they didnt undertsandenglish so i translated. I learned that we have to learn to give all what we can because theres other people out there that needs our help.
2 WEEK
part of my aunts b day
my friend from sps rebe(left)
San Pedro Sula:
In my second weekend of summer i went to san pedro sula because it was the bithday of my aunt i had so much fun because i saw my cousins from sps that i hadent seen them in 6 month so i had a pretty good time. The first day i got there i was so tired so i dint go out or anything i just went straight to the bed witch was kind of hard to sleep because i had like my hole family in that house so my little cousins were running and screaming so it wasnt my best day. The next morning i was excited because it was the party of my aunt witch was huge because she was turning 40 so she made kind of a big party witch was in a club called prive in the club arabe it was so much fun we got to sing dance and do watever we wanted we weent so late it was such a fun night. The next morning i was so tired but my cousin woke me up as always and it was the real day of my aunt birthday so we sang her happy birthday with a huge cake it was kind of fun being with my family but then i got like bored so i decided to go out with my friends of sanpedro sula so i went out we went to the sushi it was so good i think the ssushi there is better than over here i had so much funn they are so funn after that it was kind of late so i went home because i was tired form last night party. Then next morning i woke up and i didnt stay with my family i went to a friends house that i havent seen her like in forever so i needed to talj to her and catch up with her because last time i saw her was when we went to play soccer with the school so we talked for hours and i had fun with the chat i had with her i spoked english with her because she from albama . I had a good time in san pedro sula hope i go soon:D.!!
3 WEEK
readinng...
The Last Song:
In my third week of summer i read a book called the last song by nocholas spark its so good. The book its about this girl named Ronnie that went to visit her father that lived on the beach Ronnie was a complicated teenager she was really rude to her father she didnt want anything to do with him because supposely he abandon them but it wasnt true the fault was of her mother bt Ronnie always thought it was his fatther. What ronnie didnt now is that she went to see her father was not for just a visit but her father had cancer and ronnie didnt know that and she was really rude all summer but Ronnie at the end discover that her fatehr had cancer so she try to fix every bad mve she did in the begging by helping him and staying with him till his death. Ronnie met this guy called Will she was really rude to him at first as she was with her father but ten ishe falls in love. After a few weeks path Ronnie and Will were fighting because Ronnies dad was accused because of a fire that he didn make it was scott who did t a friend of Will and Ronnie didnt know that till the end so she got pissed and run away from will and then at the end Ronnies dad die and will tells her hes going to columbia so that like the happy ending. I read this story in english:D.
4 WEEK
fisher island
Miami:
In the third week of summer i went to miami as always miami is funn!! In miami i spoke a lot of english with a lot of diffrent people in a store i also translated to a women. In miami my mom has a lot of friends so for one week we went to have dinner with all this people some work and some friends it was kind of fun because i met new people and like 4 of them were of my age so i could hang out with them and go out becuase if not i would stay with my mom and her friends and seriously thats not intersting. I made a couple of friends i ate sooooo goood we went to such good restaurant but the best one is sir pizza that its a tradition for me my mom and my sister to go eat there everytime we go to miami. Another tradition is the day before leavinng miami is to go to benni hannah something like that its so good they cook infront of you whatever you want. In miami i always go to bloomingdales and nordstrom cause i love the cloth there it like the best so we went shopping. In miami li also went to the seaquarium because my cousins wanted to go it wasnt that intersting because i have had gone before so it was kind of boring blut i saw entersting things to it was kind of cool but after a while it got boring. In miami i have gone so many times but this time i went to a place that iii didnt know that exsisted its called fisher island islike a island in the middle of miami its so pretty it like a mini village its so modern and to get there you have to go in a ferry but it takes like 10 minutes its so close soo it was amazing how pretty that place is it has one hotel and 5 restaurants and 1 gym and people use golf cars to tranport all thehouse are apartment but its amazing!!!! i was impressed. I love miami!
5 WEEK
playing cranium
Cranium:
In the summer i played this game called Cranium its so much fun. I practiced my english in this game because the hole game its in english. It has like four station and you have to have fun facts, act and hum, sketch and sculpt, and puzzling so with this game you definetly get up your english skills because you have to think and act in english so you practically learn from it because theres some words you sont know and have to act. Cranium is a fun game to play with friends. Cranium its a bordgame.
6 WEEK
3D at the museum
New York City:
In my fourth week of summer i went to new york city. I had so much fun with my mom and sister we did so much. We went shopping, eating,theatehers and broadways it was amazing. This time was so much fun because everytime i go to new york city i go with my dad and i always go in new years but this time i went in summer and with my mom so it was so cool. We went to soho witch is like the best street for shopping theres like everything in there and its a long street so its so cool. We also went to this broadway show called Wicked its so good its like a virsion of the movie the wizard of oz but its so mych better live and in the play because of the sound effects and the thing people do it simpressive its so cool i practiced my english because i heard the play in english. We also went to this new measum that opened in new york about Tutankamun something like that its about the famous thomb because it like complete so its so famous after that, in the meusum they gaved us this things that as you passed to an a artifact they gaved uou like a tghing that a women told you the story of the artifact it was cool. we went to like a theather in the meausem in 3D that they showed you more stuff and how they found the stuff because in the museum they showed u a lot of parts that belong to him and they have the replica of his body that was found inside the thomb its so cool it was amazing. I also saw a friend of my mom that i consider her my aunt and shes so nice so we went eating cause i havent seen her like in 1 year because she moved to new york so we spent time with her it was a good evning i speaked english with her because she didnt want to speak spanish:(:p. I also got to meet my mom brazilian friends from college it was so cool because they were really funny so they entertained me so much it was really good i had such a good time in new york one of my favorite trips.
7 WEEK
Gossip Girl:
In this weekend i didnt go out i watched gossip girl with bandes it was so cool . i already had seen the show but this summer i wanted to see it again it was so cool. Gossip Girl was in English so we learned new words and new fashion words we can say:p. Gssip Girl is a really intersting show that you dont get bored of watching it. Its about this two girls named Blair and Serena and Nate and Chuck and Dan those are the main characters for me because the problem revolve around them. This show is dram love action it has everything in it. i also read the first book of Gossip Girl its so good its better than the show but it has like 10 books iand i dont want to read that much so i perfer the show but the books are better because they describe you everthing with detail its so cool. Once you start seeing the show you ant stop. We learned new vocabulary watching Gossip Girl some words we googled them. It was fun!!!:)
8 WEEK
In this week i started reading Charlie st.Cloud its the new movie of zac efron and they made a book its really sad its about this guy that i sgoing to college so he tells his little brother that he will prctice everyday before he leaves of to college to play baseball. One day Charlie was saying to sam his little brother that he will not ditch him went him went to college while fighting they had a car aaccident and Sam died. After that god sends like this gift or power whatever you call it that he could play and talk with his brother Sam so he went all the days to like a forest and played with him baseball. Weeks later Charlie met this girl and then started dating as he fall in love he starts to forget about his brother. one day charlie took his girlfriend to see his brother Sam got pissed and the Charlie needed to choose between his girlfriend or brother something like that i havent finish the book so im in a really intersting part. I learned like three new words throught the book.:D
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19/25
SUMMER
1 WEEK
Honduras Outreach Mission in Olancho:
This was the first week of summer finally NO SCHOOL! After getting out of school my mom send me and my sister to this entersting mission with this group of americans that come every year to help poor people that live in villages. Each year they choose diffrent departments this year the deparment that they went was Olancho. When i got to olancho i was like are you kidding me because we were in the middle of nowhere but then after being one week there i got establishes and it wasd kind of a fun expiernce. We got up at 6 in the moning and hopped on a bus and went to the village witch was 2 hours away from were we where staying soo we got there pretty tired so then like at 8 we got to the village the girls gaved lessons to the kids of the village so this group camed from a church so they were really religious so they showed the kids things of god and we made arts and crafts all together were we worked with them was in theirs school it was kind of an elementry it was only from kinder to sixth grade so we worked with little kids the school was in really bad shaped but that sisnt matter when we were thewre cause our mission was to make people happy. The boys they worked in houses they made the cement and then they made floors and rooftops cause the hpuse were in really bad shape in that little village it was kind of scary how those people lived i got to help one day on building it was kind of hard because i neede to carry big buckets of cement and throw it to the floor it was a fun expiernce. After all the effort we put in the day we left like at 4 and hopped on the bus again they 2 hours and finally got were we were staying. At night we had devotions whicg we sat in a circle and sang some songs whitch we pretty gppd it was a moment of sharing and apprectiating all what we had done in the day it was a relaxing moment. I made new friends it was really cool we all shared our life and they we were nice people. I also translated to the little kid because they didnt undertsandenglish so i translated. I learned that we have to learn to give all what we can because theres other people out there that needs our help.
2 WEEK
San Pedro Sula:
In my second weekend of summer i went to san pedro sula because it was the bithday of my aunt i had so much fun because i saw my cousins from sps that i hadent seen them in 6 month so i had a pretty good time. The first day i got there i was so tired so i dint go out or anything i just went straight to the bed witch was kind of hard to sleep because i had like my hole family in that house so my little cousins were running and screaming so it wasnt my best day. The next morning i was excited because it was the party of my aunt witch was huge because she was turning 40 so she made kind of a big party witch was in a club called prive in the club arabe it was so much fun we got to sing dance and do watever we wanted we weent so late it was such a fun night. The next morning i was so tired but my cousin woke me up as always and it was the real day of my aunt birthday so we sang her happy birthday with a huge cake it was kind of fun being with my family but then i got like bored so i decided to go out with my friends of sanpedro sula so i went out we went to the sushi it was so good i think the ssushi there is better than over here i had so much funn they are so funn after that it was kind of late so i went home because i was tired form last night party. Then next morning i woke up and i didnt stay with my family i went to a friends house that i havent seen her like in forever so i needed to talj to her and catch up with her because last time i saw her was when we went to play soccer with the school so we talked for hours and i had fun with the chat i had with her i spoked english with her because she from albama . I had a good time in san pedro sula hope i go soon:D.!!
3 WEEK
The Last Song:
In my third week of summer i read a book called the last song by nocholas spark its so good. The book its about this girl named Ronnie that went to visit her father that lived on the beach Ronnie was a complicated teenager she was really rude to her father she didnt want anything to do with him because supposely he abandon them but it wasnt true the fault was of her mother bt Ronnie always thought it was his fatther. What ronnie didnt now is that she went to see her father was not for just a visit but her father had cancer and ronnie didnt know that and she was really rude all summer but Ronnie at the end discover that her fatehr had cancer so she try to fix every bad mve she did in the begging by helping him and staying with him till his death. Ronnie met this guy called Will she was really rude to him at first as she was with her father but ten ishe falls in love. After a few weeks path Ronnie and Will were fighting because Ronnies dad was accused because of a fire that he didn make it was scott who did t a friend of Will and Ronnie didnt know that till the end so she got pissed and run away from will and then at the end Ronnies dad die and will tells her hes going to columbia so that like the happy ending. I read this story in english:D.
4 WEEK
Miami:
In the third week of summer i went to miami as always miami is funn!! In miami i spoke a lot of english with a lot of diffrent people in a store i also translated to a women. In miami my mom has a lot of friends so for one week we went to have dinner with all this people some work and some friends it was kind of fun because i met new people and like 4 of them were of my age so i could hang out with them and go out becuase if not i would stay with my mom and her friends and seriously thats not intersting. I made a couple of friends i ate sooooo goood we went to such good restaurant but the best one is sir pizza that its a tradition for me my mom and my sister to go eat there everytime we go to miami. Another tradition is the day before leavinng miami is to go to benni hannah something like that its so good they cook infront of you whatever you want. In miami i always go to bloomingdales and nordstrom cause i love the cloth there it like the best so we went shopping. In miami li also went to the seaquarium because my cousins wanted to go it wasnt that intersting because i have had gone before so it was kind of boring blut i saw entersting things to it was kind of cool but after a while it got boring. In miami i have gone so many times but this time i went to a place that iii didnt know that exsisted its called fisher island islike a island in the middle of miami its so pretty it like a mini village its so modern and to get there you have to go in a ferry but it takes like 10 minutes its so close soo it was amazing how pretty that place is it has one hotel and 5 restaurants and 1 gym and people use golf cars to tranport all thehouse are apartment but its amazing!!!! i was impressed. I love miami!5 WEEK
Cranium:
In the summer i played this game called Cranium its so much fun. I practiced my english in this game because the hole game its in english. It has like four station and you have to have fun facts, act and hum, sketch and sculpt, and puzzling so with this game you definetly get up your english skills because you have to think and act in english so you practically learn from it because theres some words you sont know and have to act. Cranium is a fun game to play with friends. Cranium its a bordgame.
6 WEEK
New York City:
In my fourth week of summer i went to new york city. I had so much fun with my mom and sister we did so much. We went shopping, eating,theatehers and broadways it was amazing. This time was so much fun because everytime i go to new york city i go with my dad and i always go in new years but this time i went in summer and with my mom so it was so cool. We went to soho witch is like the best street for shopping theres like everything in there and its a long street so its so cool. We also went to this broadway show called Wicked its so good its like a virsion of the movie the wizard of oz but its so mych better live and in the play because of the sound effects and the thing people do it simpressive its so cool i practiced my english because i heard the play in english. We also went to this new measum that opened in new york about Tutankamun something like that its about the famous thomb because it like complete so its so famous after that, in the meusum they gaved us this things that as you passed to an a artifact they gaved uou like a tghing that a women told you the story of the artifact it was cool. we went to like a theather in the meausem in 3D that they showed you more stuff and how they found the stuff because in the museum they showed u a lot of parts that belong to him and they have the replica of his body that was found inside the thomb its so cool it was amazing. I also saw a friend of my mom that i consider her my aunt and shes so nice so we went eating cause i havent seen her like in 1 year because she moved to new york so we spent time with her it was a good evning i speaked english with her because she didnt want to speak spanish:(:p. I also got to meet my mom brazilian friends from college it was so cool because they were really funny so they entertained me so much it was really good i had such a good time in new york one of my favorite trips.
7 WEEK
Gossip Girl:
In this weekend i didnt go out i watched gossip girl with bandes it was so cool . i already had seen the show but this summer i wanted to see it again it was so cool. Gossip Girl was in English so we learned new words and new fashion words we can say:p. Gssip Girl is a really intersting show that you dont get bored of watching it. Its about this two girls named Blair and Serena and Nate and Chuck and Dan those are the main characters for me because the problem revolve around them. This show is dram love action it has everything in it. i also read the first book of Gossip Girl its so good its better than the show but it has like 10 books iand i dont want to read that much so i perfer the show but the books are better because they describe you everthing with detail its so cool. Once you start seeing the show you ant stop. We learned new vocabulary watching Gossip Girl some words we googled them. It was fun!!!:)
8 WEEK
In this week i started reading Charlie st.Cloud its the new movie of zac efron and they made a book its really sad its about this guy that i sgoing to college so he tells his little brother that he will prctice everyday before he leaves of to college to play baseball. One day Charlie was saying to sam his little brother that he will not ditch him went him went to college while fighting they had a car aaccident and Sam died. After that god sends like this gift or power whatever you call it that he could play and talk with his brother Sam so he went all the days to like a forest and played with him baseball. Weeks later Charlie met this girl and then started dating as he fall in love he starts to forget about his brother. one day charlie took his girlfriend to see his brother Sam got pissed and the Charlie needed to choose between his girlfriend or brother something like that i havent finish the book so im in a really intersting part. I learned like three new words throught the book.:D